Complaint Review: Professional Transportation Inc

Professional Transportation Inc, has failed to pay me for forty hours of Paid training.  In three days of training, riding along with other drivers, in the yard and over the road I am owed for 41 hours of paid training.  These training hours were accrued in January of 2014.  It is currently July 3, 2014, and as of five minutes ago, I still have not been paid for the training.  I called the corporate officesw in Evansville Indiana in April, asking when I was going to be paid for these hours.  I was told that they would investigate and get back to me about my complaint.  That was three months ago, and I have not heard anything back from the company, and I have not been paid.

The company is also very underhanded about how they pay.  They pay "by the mile" and use every loophole in the law to short change their drivers in the way they pay.  I have been "on the board" as they say in company parlance, for up to 12 hours nightly, I was required to phone into dispatch by 9 pm every night, and then I was on call waiting for a dispatch.  Some nights, I would be on cvall until 9 the next morning when I would call and take myself off the board.  Other nights, I would get one run, That run would start at 4 in the morning, after I had already been on the clock for 7 hours, and would be a run from Tacoma to Seattle, a total of 58.8 Miles.  For this I was paid $41.56.  For the whopping total of 70 cents a mile.  But, if you look at this from the standpoint of hourly wage, while sitting in Rush hour trafficfor two hours each direction, plus the 7 hours I was already on the clock before beginning the call, it averages out to $3.78 per hour.  Washington's minimum wage is $9.32 per hour, nearly 2 1/2 times what they are effectively paying their employees.